Top 300 Gertrude Stein Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are always the same age inside.”

— Gertrude Stein

2. “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”

— Gertrude Stein

3. “When you get there, there isn’t any there there.”

— Gertrude Stein

4. “To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.”

— Gertrude Stein

5. “You are all a lost generation.”

— Gertrude Stein

6. “You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.”

— Gertrude Stein

7. “Forget grammar and think about potatoes.”

— Gertrude Stein

8. “In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

— Gertrude Stein

9. “Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.”

— Gertrude Stein

10. “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”

— Gertrude Stein

11. “There is no there there.”

— Gertrude Stein

12. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

13. “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

— Gertrude Stein

14. “I am I because my little dog knows me.”

— Gertrude Stein

15. “Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

16. “You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”

— Gertrude Stein

17. “The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.”

— Gertrude Stein

18. “One must dare to be happy.”

— Gertrude Stein

19. “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

— Gertrude Stein

20. “Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.”

— Gertrude Stein

21. “I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”

— Gertrude Stein

22. “Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.”

— Gertrude Stein

23. “Romance is everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

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24. “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

— Gertrude Stein

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25. “If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.”

— Gertrude Stein

26. “When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.”

— Gertrude Stein

27. “Money is always there but the pockets change.”

— Gertrude Stein

28. “A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”

— Gertrude Stein

29. “August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.”

— Gertrude Stein

30. “The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.”

— Gertrude Stein

31. “One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”

— Gertrude Stein

32. “Every man is the maker of his own fortune.”

— Gertrude Stein

33. “What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.”

— Gertrude Stein

34. “I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”

— Gertrude Stein

35. “Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.”

— Gertrude Stein

36. “To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.”

— Gertrude Stein

37. “Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.”

— Gertrude Stein

38. “Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”

— Gertrude Stein

39. “Nothing has happened today except kindness.”

— Gertrude Stein

40. “The artist works by locating the world in himself.”

— Gertrude Stein

41. “It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

— Gertrude Stein

42. “I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

43. “Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.”

— Gertrude Stein

44. “Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.”

— Gertrude Stein

45. “I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.”

— Gertrude Stein

46. “If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.”

— Gertrude Stein

47. “If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.”

— Gertrude Stein

48. “Very likely education does not make very much difference.”

— Gertrude Stein

49. “Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.”

— Gertrude Stein

50. “One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”

— Gertrude Stein